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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1958.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE BRIGHTEN UP YOUR FEET!

By Joy Matthews You'll mix shoes and match them

IN SILK AND SATIN. AND EVEN VELVET

THE prettiest and the brightest fabrics this summer

Tilbe going to your feet.

And the best-dressed girls will be mixing and matching their shoes and their chemise-dresses, instead of sticking to those plain old calf pumps.

The new idea is; plain colours of fashion this sum- dress, and brilliantly print mer simply shout for bright, And these ed shoes as a sizzling set-off, accessories.. or prints for your dress and fabrics look wonderful on a plain beautiful fabric shoo very very pointed shoes."

in linen or straw-cloth, His latest Buccess: Swiss dyed to match.

nylon strawcloth, which has a

a dream.

Pioneer with the print high gloss to it and dyes like story is Edward Rayne, who told me:~~~

pumps Those dycable linen that were selling everywhere lest sammer for under £3 are agala, higher-heeled with us and pointier-toed than ever,

"Women now will take to anything that's new and oxciting In fashion-and the big news this summer is And if you're worried about shoes, with enormous em- the cleaning of all these

luxurles this is what phasis on fabric shoes, summer

shoes the experts Boy: linen

Dale

particularly for cocktail or can be scrubbed gently with evening wear, in every warm water and lots of soapy fabric you can think of lather. But don't drown them silks and satin, peau de soic, or they'll dry out ruined. and shantung, even velvet.

HIGH GLOSS

"After all," he points out, "the simple lines and plain

For silk and satin shoes there's D Special dry-cleaner, prico 29. Ild. Or you ctn buy magnesla powder cheaply from any chemist, cub a little in with

Colton

gently.

wool and

EXTRAVAGANZA of the rew summer shoes from £4 to £15 15%. Left to right: Blue and illac printed shantung; silk crepe that can be dyed to any colour you choose; pink and red roses

PICTURE BY JOHN FRENCH

printed on to a pair of velvet pumps; coffee and cream flowers on white linen; satin-edged nylon strawcloth, to be dyed it you please; and nylon printed with a green and tan floral pattern.

SHIRLEY LOWE warns those about to marry do-it-yourself types

HOW I'D LOVE TO PHONE

FOR A PLUMBER

WISH I'd married a man can't carpenter. I who

elec- on to an out Who gets brish

trician when a fuse blows. Who brings in a builder for la broken door catch, who employs other people to dis-' temper and paint and hang wallpaper, instead of him and me

Well, this is one way of spending

✓

the weekend...

But I didn't. I married a do-it-yourself-addict and I'm tired of people telling me how lucky I am.

What they don't realise, those fortunate women whose husbands are baffled by a burst pipe, is that car- penters, builders, decorators, and motor mechanics need The mate, as if

A report for everyone who is mate

(or ever has been) diet-conscious

row are you

Hthis

spending Saturday special I'll be having sit in hor Siz bath-you * weekend? Down

water, put your feet in cold. It in Surrey 60

and has a wonderful pump women are living a spartan on the spine,"

men

life-and enjoying it.

aver

action

"Cara need decoking at Inter- vals and so do human beings," At Enton Hall Dietetic and

nald the manager. Mr Jervis, whose Osteopathic Hydro,

a drink (orange juice "patienta" or guests have re-

natually) in the airy bar. cently included the Duchess of Westminster, Lady Cynthia "If more people toned then Asquith, Lord and Lady Bath, selves up this way there'd be u Evelyn Laye, Tessie O'Shea, lot more healthy digestions the spartan 60 will rise early, and good tempera" enjoy cold showers with coarse salt massage ("salt glow") and almost nothing to eat,

pany'

Mr Howenden Baines, com- director, knocked back the remainder of his lunch (a gluas of orange juice), thumbed the tapels ot vivid yellow and pronounced.

Life at least "This is the every now and again."

A FEAST

you hadn't guessed, is you.

My husband made exhilarating swoops with the roller

Your job is to stand alongside, passing up ham- mers, calling out-praise and painting in the bits he's goodness me, but what a clever bored with.

"Fill in those corners with a brush, will you," he

And as you labori says. ously probe away with your balding brush, off he goes making exhilarating sweeps with his roller.

Simple job

When we painted the sitting room, I was deinlied to clean

WHILE the happy, spartan 60 and prepare the walls. A sim- are siture down this week-ple job that I undertook with end to a luncheon consisting of pleasure. Until I

Ar

discovered that three layers of old paper orange garalshed with leaves, to be removed before the Monsieur Abel Aiban, İlead hia Chef of the Savoy Grill will bead painter could move

with his roller. dressing-gown have prepared for his guests: La pase de tortle an zeres

(turtle soup),

Wealthy Mr Baines and his wife are among the spartan 60.

They are paying the top rate of 23 guineas each for the treatment--and will be coming

up for more.

-

La truite au bleu de buETTE fondu (melted butter with trout),

Poussin Saute Bergere, and Lex fond d'afticharr

[Florentine style), Followed by La coupe delic

Helena (pears plus).

In case the spartans are tempted when they leave Enton Hall, he tells me

"For my

main dish you need 14 pounds

Mr Baines is the type of praying-haired executive on could readily pleture immacu Jale in pin-stripe in a board room or measuring up to a five or six small mushrooms, a

towards 200-yard drive comforts of the club house,

the lovely new paint.

idea to contrast

that parilcu- lar shade of red with that unusual tone of yellow.

make everything just as well as

and

the expert,

st half the j price,

"Don't you go buying one of And when all our friends

washing-up mops" he) looked at the nicely painted those sitting-room, 1he Smartly orders. "I can whip one up for papered kitchen, and the brand you in a matter of minutes." new nursery, they said:

"You don't know how lucky you are

Missing

to have such a clever husband." What I do know is that a

One man can't do everything clever husband, who knows how in a house and run a full-time to do all the manly things job as well. This is probably around a house, can't under why our house is not in such a stand a woman who can't do all good state of repair as those of the little feminine things around some of my friends, whose allly house. Like running up cur- husbands don't know how to tains, re-covering clinirs, and knock a nall into a wall cuffs.

They shrank

The pace has been missing from the allting-room window ever since a muscular frlend olaligingly offered to shift it when

it got stuck. That was before the cold spell

The bathroom is in the earne sort of condition as the bath- room in any average thirty bab a week boarding house,

I made some curtains onto After I had prepared the walls, I went eagerly towards Big full, impressive ones that swept down to the floor. But after the first wash they were

little "Don't worry, I'll do.

that curtains this," skimpy The said firmly, "You'd better borely cleared the sill

get broom and clear up the

I tried darning socks, too, and mess."

my husband eagerly rushed out and bought me a during mush- room that it up. But the bulb went and I worried so much people. about mending the mushroom that I never did got around to

When we pa wed the kitchen I was allowed to slosh paste on to the back of the paper, until iny drop of it appeared on the front of the paper.

My job was quickly down tending the socks.

of chicken, an ounce of butter, graded to paper-holder. Which

meant stonding on tiptoe with cuffs

one egg. It takes 25 minutes to and hair,

on

*

The bath is peeling. Th cistern is. rusling gently away.

But we qan't call in the

plumbers and builders like other

Plans laid

i also drelded to turn this.Adiogram is drawn and argued

Bhirt After 20

bathroom, which the half gill of maderia, five table Arms outstretched and pasty minutes of close and careful ever, and plans are laid for a

spoons 14-cream, the yolk of papeis dropping into more unpleking 1 oponed up the cult grand, new

Cocessliates removing the out- while my husband to reveal starched webbing side wall and replacing it with palima and dabbed lf into place. didn't think roy husband SEDATE MANSION Cook.

When

wanted to wear sacking at his glass bricks.. we turned the spara "I clean and singe the chie

shirt and faced a pair of hurt out last summer. Ever sincey tho juice and the dressing-gown? the back open, Then I flauenna and a half months preg and Recusing eyes. It was his house has been held up by a Why. I wondered, the orange- ken in the usual way and spilt bedroom into a nursery, I was rats so I throw away the. The first fow bricks were taken piece of wood, four inches wido We were sitting in Room 4 and season and cook ip a amallant. Surely, I asked. I won't

bo much help to you in this favourite onto

and two feet high spacious double room in this saucepan about the size of the condition?

Another Aisadvantage *al sedate Victorian mansion over-, bird, with butter. When three- looking some of the 50 seres of quarters cooked I add sliced My husband sold I was to having such a clever husband of course, it is very gratifying lawn and woodland.

white mushrooms, Then when just sit still and make myself that he's far too busy doing to have everyone telling you that you have such a ciever husband. Mrs Baines-in a pale pink cooked I put the chicken on a comfortablo, as he patted a it himself to enjoy himself.

the plato and cover to keep warm, spiky pile of dust-sheet-covered

The pity of it is that you can dressing-gown --- DIVU

or play would A film answer. We come hore turco Then I add merindo the sauce fimilare in the middle of the pleasant, 1 feel. But when I never get close enough to him to Umes a year and it really pan and reduce this; when a room.

have traclood my husband down: tell his so yoursel keeps us going. It might look duced, four or five tablespoons like a starvation diot-but it's cream, I allow this to boil and helped to keep my arthritis al thicken the sauce with the yolk bay--and is a wonderful tonic of egg, so0o-and pour the

for the heart."

sauce over the chláken,” Yes, I

can't describe how wonderful I feel after glow" ald Mr Bained, Just come from Quo. પા

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to his workshop I find this iden 'If he isn't crouched behind a In not only madness" ; but quito destering electric drill, then he's out of the quesiton. He is buy, das on his trick under the car. roaking a wokow 'lo fit a badgona that he has made for the car. Taken all round. I wish t married a man who thinkp7 (just na

There I sat, makrouned until two in the morning. A largo, LISA MOYNIHAN complaining gure,ving It is the predicament of the as I need to do) that spirit Itup whoope of delight at : the do-it-yourself: addiet that, ha leval ja something to do whb a new door "catches, and paying, knows he can-do averything and dry idartini.

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